Spanish A Level

Course summary

PAPER 1: Listening, reading and writing Key Content: • Aspects of Hispanic Society • Artistic culture in the Hispanic world • Grammar • Aspects of political life in Hispanic society • Listening and responding to spoken passages from a range of contexts and sources covering different registers and adapted as necessary. Questions in Spanish to be answered with non-verbal responses or in Spanish • Reading and responding to a variety of texts written for different purposes, drawn from a range of authentic sources and adapted as necessary. • Translation into English; a passage of minimum 70 words • Translation into Spanish; a passage of minimum 100 words PAPER 2: Writing Key Content: • One text and one film • Grammar PAPER 3: Speaking Key content: • Individual research project • One of four themes (Aspects of Hispanic society or Artistic culture in the Hispanic world or Multiculturalism in Hispanic society or Aspects of political life in Hispanic society • Discussion of a sub-theme with the discussion based on a stimulus card (5-6 minutes). The student studies the card for 5 minutes at the start of the test • Presentation (2 minutes) and discussion (9-10 minutes) of individual research project